Daily Scripture Analysis

  • PENTECOST SUNDAY – Year ABC – Easter

    Please press the highlighted to listen to the homily or download PENTECOST SUNDAY – Year ABC – Easter Readings: Acts 2:1-11; 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; Jn 20:19-23. 1/ Reading I: RSV Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit … Read more

  • Saturday – Seventh Week – Easter

    Please press the highlighted to listen to the homily or download Saturday – Seventh Week – Easter Readings: Acts 28:16-20, 30-31: Jn 21:20-25. 1/ First Reading: NAB Acts 28:16 When he entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him. 17 Three days later he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered, he said to them, “My brothers, although I had done nothing against our people or our ancestral customs, I was handed over to the Romans as a prisoner from Jerusalem. 18 After trying my case the Romans … Read more

  • Friday – Seventh Week – Easter

    Please press the highlighted to listen to the homily or download Friday – Seventh Week – Easter Readings: Acts 25:13b-21; Jn 21:15-19. Reading 1 (Acts 25:13b-21): King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea on a visit to Festus. Since they spent several days there, Festus referred Paul’s case to the king, saying, “There is a man here left in custody by Felix. When I was in Jerusalem the chief priests and the elders of the Jews brought charges against him and demanded his condemnation. I answered them that it was not Roman practice to hand over an accused person before he has … Read more

  • Thursday – Seventh Week – Easter

    Please press the highlighted to listen to the homily or download Thursday – Seventh Week – Easter Readings: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11; Jn 17:20-26. Reading 1 (Acts 22:30; 23:6-11): Wishing to determine the truth about why Paul was being accused by the Jews, the commander freed him and ordered the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin to convene. Then he brought Paul down and made him stand before them. Paul was aware that some were Sadducees and some Pharisees, so, he called out before the Sanhedrin, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees; I am on trial for hope in … Read more

  • Wednesday – Seventh Week – Easter

    Please press the highlighted to listen to the homily or download Wednesday – Seventh Week – Easter Readings: Acts 20:28-38; Jn 17:11b-19. Reading 1 (Acts 20:28-38): At Miletus, Paul spoke to the presbyters of the Church of Ephesus: “Keep watch over yourselves and over the whole flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, in which you tend the Church of God that he acquired with his own Blood. I know that after my departure savage wolves will come among you, and they will not spare the flock. And from your own group, men will come forward perverting the truth … Read more

  • Tuesday – Seventh Week – Easter

    Please press the highlighted to listen to the homily or download Tuesday – Seventh Week – Easter Readings: Acts 20:17-27; Jn 17:1-11a. Reading 1 (Acts 20:17-27): From Miletus Paul had the presbyters of the Church at Ephesus summoned. When they came to him, he addressed them, “You know how I lived among you the whole time from the day I first came to the province of Asia. I served the Lord with all humility and with the tears and trials that came to me because of the plots of the Jews, and I did not at all shrink from telling you what … Read more

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